Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
To start off, the statement questioning about whether in terms of effectiveness, political authorities must compromise principle and yield to public opinion. In my opinion, remaining to principle without flexibility is less likely to reveal today’s rapidly changing society. Therefore, I believe that it is more effective to follow public opinion than stick to previously determined principles and objectives. Hence, I agree with the statement given and argue that as political leaders consider public opinion, they could be a better leader.
First of all, the principles of political leaders could not always be right. The most essential quality of a leader is the ability to compare objectives and find a better one for whole nation. When blatantly pursuing principles, political figures can send out the message that they do not receive any feedback from others. Apparently bad principles such as economically inefficient policies should not be consistently committed to and should be reconsidered to practice a better alternate. If this kind of principle goes unchecked, it often festers into something much worse down the road. Even some politicians could be regarded as autocracy if they rule out other possibilities that can be more effective to remain to particular principles. The message through the above cases is clear. Political leaders have to realize which one is more suitable for general benefit and pursue flexibly according the given situation.
Further, following the opinion made by public is more likely to be efficient than previously given principles. If people accumulate their thoughts, it will be possible that politicians could have more choice sets than before. According to the well-known economic theory, we can optimize our utility when we have more options. Therefore, what is needed by political leaders is to select the right one. Historically famous and venerated kings were the leaders that allowed officials to participate in the decision process and seriously considered their opinions. Take, for example, the king Sejong of Joseon Dynasty (Korean Dynastic Kingdom, 1392-1894) who is regarded as one of the best king in Korean history. He usually decided important policies by collecting other’s view and debating to choose better one. Due to this discussion process, he was able to make the state strong and favorable to people. This example illustrates that considering public opinion is a necessary condition to be an effective leader.
Of course, some may argue that considering all public opinions could cause social inefficiency. They may suggest that political leaders need to strongly follow principles and minimize to change those. Perhaps, they may posit the financial and timing cost of considering public opinions. When making decisions by discussing to select among options, it is inevitable that some costs occur. However, it is worth to note that most current nations chose democratic system and other non-democratic countries are losing power in the world society. The important thing is that democratic political system is based on opinions of public. From this perspective, we can infer that the benefit of following public opinion far exceeds the cost.
All in all, I strongly argue that to be an effective leader, politicians should actively consider public opinions rather than sticking to determined principles. The fact that public opinions could make better results for general public makes it clear that those who do not agree with my statement should suggest a stronger reason for their claim.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 801, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...ther's view and debating to choose better one. Due to this discussion process, he...
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Line 4, column 312, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'discussing selecting'.
Suggestion: discussing selecting
...blic opinions. When making decisions by discussing to select among options, it is inevitable that so...
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Line 5, column 221, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
... opinions could make better results for general public makes it clear that those who do not ag...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, first, hence, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, even so, for example, kind of, of course, such as, first of all, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3017.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 556.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42625899281 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85588840946 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85132871414 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 284.0 215.323595506 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510791366906 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 960.3 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.4607515627 60.3974514979 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 100.566666667 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5333333333 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76666666667 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.351090478029 0.243740707755 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0877994270215 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.06611821481 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201484623739 0.150359130593 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0599108800886 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.